Re: patch for mmap MAP_ANON|MAP_SHARED

Christoph Rohland (hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com)
23 Apr 2000 10:08:31 +0200


Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:

> So you can only use shared /dev/zero mappings to share across
> fork()?

Yes.

> Darn. And I thought it was an automagic equivalent to shm_open().

No, that's a common misunderstanding. But we now _have_ shm_open with
the shm fs..

Greetings
Christoph

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